Example sentences of "[det] this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 2 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 3 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 4 | All this time we were still trying to fix up Denmark Street so that it became vaguely comfortable . |
| 5 | All this time I was desperately worried about my family . |
| 6 | All this time I was trying to make a little money by doing hack-work translations of French and German children 's stories . |
| 7 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 8 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 9 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 10 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 11 | All this time I still wondered about the origin of babies , and one night I raised the subject with Nellie . |
| 12 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 13 | ‘ All this time I know you and you never once suggest it . |
| 14 | All this time I said nothing to anyone of what I truly felt . |
| 15 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 16 | But all this time , all this time I 've thought — she was just gone . ’ |
| 17 | During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape . |
| 18 | But he said , " Do n't sleep with him " , and all this time I was pregnant . |
| 19 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 20 | It appears that all this time I too was working flat out , because , in addition to a heavy load of teaching , I was writing articles right and left , as well as tinkering with the political book . |
| 21 | You mean all this time you thought your mother no , I just do n't understand . |
| 22 | All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’ |
| 23 | And all this time you were recovering and repairing ? |
| 24 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 25 | Oh , Silas — darling — after all this time it 's wonderful to see you again . |
| 26 | If Zen had survived more or less intact all this time it was thanks to the instinct that was telling him to leave now . |
| 27 | During the Depression Silver sold china and glass in Fifth Avenue , worked a petrol pump , and sold cigarettes wholesale ; but all this time he was collecting Walt Whitman ; he also studied for a Master 's degree in English at Boston University , which he was awarded in 1941 . |
| 28 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 29 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 30 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |